The memoirs of Virginia Giuffre, the main accuser of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who took her own life in April, will be published in October. Titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, the book offers “an unflinching final account of her experience with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his partner and accomplice at the time, who prostituted her, along with others, to numerous powerful men,” publisher Penguin Random House announced.
A Posthumous Release: Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s “Sex Slave”
Virginia Giuffre, a central figure in the Epstein case, will have her memoir published on October 21 by Penguin Random House. The release comes a few months after her suicide in Australia last April, at the age of 41. She was the leading voice among Epstein’s victims and had accused the American financier of using her as a “sex slave.”
Giuffre said she met Ghislaine Maxwell in the summer of 2000 while working a summer job at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida estate. Then 16 years old, she accused Maxwell and Epstein of sexually exploiting her. “Here, Giuffre delivers a final, uncompromising account of her experience with Epstein and Maxwell, who prostituted her and others to many influential men,” the publisher wrote.
Titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, the book also revisits the sexual violence Giuffre suffered during childhood and how she eventually escaped “the grip of Epstein and Maxwell at age 19.”
In 2021, Giuffre sued Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles III, accusing him of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. The prince has always denied the allegations but reached a multimillion-dollar settlement to avoid a trial in New York.
Trump Under Pressure: Epstein’s Lingering Shadow
The announcement of Giuffre’s memoir comes as Donald Trump’s team — the former U.S. president having been close to Jeffrey Epstein until the mid-2000s — faces renewed criticism for a lack of transparency surrounding the financier’s case.
Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019, was awaiting trial for sex crimes. His accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for recruiting minors between 1994 and 2004. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice released an interview with Maxwell, in which she claimed she had “never” witnessed any inappropriate behavior from Donald Trump, a friend of Epstein’s until the mid-2000s.